by Franz Kafka
First American edition, first printing
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First American edition stated, first printing. [ix], 297, [1] pp., illustrated throughout by Georg Salter. Bound in publisher's rust-colored cloth over flexible boards with pictorial stamping in blue and black, blue topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with lean to binding, light wear and soiling to cloth, soft crease to front board, and foxing to upper edge of textblock. Offsetting to endpapers, owner signature to front free endpaper. A much nicer copy than normally encountered.
A nice copy of Kafka's darkest work, a posthumously published novel about a man arrested on undefined charges, with no hope of redemption or acquittal. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, who introduced Kafka's works to the English-speaking world.